Merton Intermediate

Set in Hartland, Wisconsin, Merton Intermediate is a reasonably sized middle school, operated by Merton Community School District. It hosts 368 students across grades 5 through 8.

Within Merton Community School District, which oversees 2 schools and 894 students, Merton Intermediate is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Merton Intermediate lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Merton Intermediate reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Waukesha County runs at roughly 17%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Merton Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.1%; this one delivers 86.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Waukesha County indicate median household earnings sit near $106,076, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Merton Intermediate is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).

Nearest neighbor: Merton Primary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Merton Intermediate. On composite proficiency, Merton Intermediate comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 80.9%.

Merton Intermediate operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Merton Intermediate's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 368). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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